Designing and Validating the Saleh School Establishment Model

A Saleh school is a school for the realization of a good life and the attainment of a healthy society. Therefore, the aim of the present study was designing and validating the Saleh school establishment model.

The present study in terms of time was cross-sectional and in terms of purpose was applied. The research population was the experts of Saleh School of the Hormozgan province in 2021 year, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 17 people of them by purposive sampling were selected as the sample. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed by coding method in MAXQDA software.

The findings showed that for Saleh school establishment model were identified 546 concepts in 29 subcategories and 14 categories. The categories were include promoting the status of education and its elements (with two sub-categories: promoting the status and value of education and promoting status of teachers and principals), management and performance improvement (with four sub-categories: attention to school management, coordination and communication, promotion of supervision and promotion of relationships and behaviors in school), politics, structure and administrative system (with two sub-categories: attention to policy issues and structure and promotion of the administrative system), attention to religious education (with one sub-category: attention to religious and national education), resources, space and equipment (with three sub-categories: attention to the issues and requirements of the physical space of the classroom and school, financing and utilization of equipment and technologies), utilization of capacities and attention to needs (with two sub-categories: attention to capacities and ecology of areas and need-based), human resources (with three sub-categories: utilizing capable human resources, empowering and motivating and attracting and employing), program and goal oriented (with four sub-categories: attention to national and local curriculum, attention to goal and program oriented, institutionalizing the value and importance of the document and operationalizing objectives and components of the transformation document), attention to quality and outcomes of the educational system (with two sub-categories: attention to consequences and outputs of educational system and enriching and improving the quality of school programs and activities), attention to experiences and research (with two sub-categories: using new perspectives and national and international experiences and research-oriented in the educational system), stakeholder and elite participation (with one subcategory: stakeholder and elite participation), individual differences (with one subcategory: observe individual differences), flexibility (with one subcategory: flexibility in the face of change) and teaching methods (with one subcategory: teaching methods), which according to the categories and subcategories the Saleh school establishment model was designed. Also, the content validity ratio of 0.84 and the content validity index of 0.89 according to experts' opinion indicated the appropriate validity of the Saleh school establishment model.

According to the identified categories and subcategories of the Saleh school establishment model in this research, education managers and planners can take an effective step to evaluate the realization of the Saleh school and the effort to establish it.